An ethics of betrayal
Subtitle: the politics of otherness in emergent U.S. literature and culture
By: Crystal Parikh.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780823230426; 9780823230433
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Betrayal in literature; Ethics in literature; Literature, Comparative; Race relations in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an ethics of betrayal; title: Late arrivals: an ethics of betrayal in racial and national formation; title: Accidents and obligations: minority neoconservatives and U.S. racial discourse; title: Ethnic America undercover: the intellectual and minority discourse; title: The passion: the betrayals of Elián González and Wen Ho Lee; title: Epilogue: the traitors in our midst.